Since Memorial Day is almost here I am reposting a number of older articles about it. Peace, Padre Steve+
The acrid smell of smoke of the last battles of the American Civil War was still lingering over many towns and cities in the South on May 1st 1865. Charleston South Carolina, a hotbed of secession was particularly hard hit during the war. In 1861 Cadets of the Citadel and South Carolina militia forces began the war with the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Union Forces laid siege to the city in late 1863 which ended with the city’s surrender on 18 February 1865. By this time much of the city had been destroyed by Union siege artillery and naval forces.
Charleston had also been the home of three of the Prisoner of War Camps erected by the Confederacy, one in the Charleston City Jail and the other at Castle Pinckney. Another camp was erected on the site of the Washington Race Course and Jockey Club in 1864. This was…
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The Inglorius Padre Steve's World 
Lucky stiff – I gotta write my own new ones! 😉 I trust you’ll have … aw heck, I’ll say it, a Happy Memorial Day. And that you’ll spare yourself a moment or two to receive all the good thoughts sent your way.
John
Much appreciation and many blessings to you. I will probably add a new Memorial Day article Sunday night or Monday. One for this year. Not sure what exactly I will do with it yet but I am am pondering it while watching A Bridge Too Far and reading Barbara Tuchman’s “A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century.” I have the duty pager until Monday morning so I am praying for an uneventful weekend.
Blessings,
Steve
If you get Turner Classic, they’re doing a bunch of submarine movies tomorrow, and a variety of classic war movies Sunday and Monday. Something to fill the hours while waiting for that &*@#$ pager to go off! (Been there, done that – though my casualties were bits and chips, not flesh and bone.)